Autocrossing a Looker?
andrewlandon67:
I was out with a couple of co-workers and a couple of my bosses students the other night choosing a new keg for the office and I found myself seated next to an autocrossing Porsche enthusiast. We got to talking and while I've never really put any thought into it, he may have convinced me to try and make it to an autocross event sometime this year. Of course, this is the Cal-Look Lounge, so I can't go on a rant about how terrible my lifted Subaru would be at autocross and call it a day. I've been talking a bit with a friend about it over the past couple of days and I think that if I were to put sway bars back on my '67, it'd probably do better than most people would think.
For now, the list is pretty small, and includes doing whatever joints need fixing, installing a 2" narrowed sway bar, moving the external oil cooler and re-installing the stock Z bar. The spring plate bushings on both sides are only a couple of years old, and the ride height is pretty solid in the rear, so I think I'll leave that as-is for now, but I'd like to lift the nose up a touch more than it is currently. The big things I'm worried about are my diff/transaxle not being able to handle the tight corners under pressure, and my engine oil-starving from the cornering. Does anyone have any experience with autocrossing these cars, especially hotrodded ones, and do you think I'd be able to get away with one day of it without any undue wear on my motor? For the record, my oiling system is a 30mm pump, full-flowed to an external filter, then a cooler, then back into the motor with no windage modifications draining into a 1 1/2 qt deep sump.
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Bryan67:
The Z bar is not a sway bar. It`s actually and overload helper spring. So I would leave it off, and put a sway bar or a camber compensator on the back to go with a front sway bar.
andrewlandon67:
Quote from: Bryan67 on February 10, 2020, 19:34:59 pm
The Z bar is not a sway bar. It`s actually and overload helper spring. So I would leave it off, and put a sway bar or a camber compensator on the back to go with a front sway bar.
I've really been considering a camber compensator as well, though I've heard nobody makes one that fits with HD side covers. What other kind of sway bars do you know of for swingaxle rear ends?
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